NW: Zadie Smith - Brossura

IRACHETA RUIZ, JOSÉ RAMÓN

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241965268 ISBN 13: 9780241965269

Casa editrice: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, 2005

Riassunto

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life

'A triumph. Every sentence sings' Guardian

'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece' Daily Telegraph

'Smith's most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard

Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.

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L'autore:

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-01 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books This is the story of a city.The northwest corner of a city Here you'll find guests and hosts. those with power and those without it. people. . who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all And many people in between.Every city is like this Cheek-by-jowl living Separate worlds.And then there are the visitations:.. the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning. causing a disruption in the whole system Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell's door. seeking help. disturbing the peace. forcing Leah out of her isolation ... Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners. - Leah. Natalie. Felix and Nathan - as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell. the council estate of their childhood From private houses to public ...

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• Editore: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0241965268
• ISBN 13: 9780241965269
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192